Posted on 08/29/2011 10:58:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Washington (CNN) – A new national survey is further proof that Texas Gov. Rick Perry's entrance earlier this month into the race for the White House has dramatically altered the battle for the Republican presidential nomination.
According to a CNN/ORC International Poll of Republicans and independent voters who lean towards the GOP, Perry now sits atop the list of Republican presidential candidates, with strong support from most demographic groups.
Full results (pdf)
The survey, released Monday, indicates that 27 percent of Republicans nationwide support Perry for their party's nomination, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who's making his second bid for the White House, at 14 percent. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin follows at ten percent, with Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani at nine percent, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who's making his third bid for the presidency, at six percent. Every one else listed on the questionnaire registered in the low single digits.
The survey follows a Gallup poll out last week which also placed Perry at the top of the GOP field. Other polling released in the past week also confirms the findings of the CNN and Gallup surveys.
"Perry's support is higher among Republican men, at 32 percent, than Republican women, at 23 percent, but he has more support among either group than any other candidate," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
According to the survey, Perry supporters tend to be older and have higher incomes, but the longtime Texas governor also tops the list, albeit by smaller margins, among lower-income Republicans and those under 50 years old.
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Reading the full survey (thanks for the link!) I fond it interesting that 1/3 of white Democrats answered that they want their party to nominate someone other than Obama!
I think it’s interesting that the poll results show Gary Johnson (who was only allowed in 1 of the 3 debates) is tied with Cain at 2% while Santorum and Huntsman are at 1%. Cain and Santorum have been in all three of the debates. I would imagine this means that CNN is going to do one of the two things for the CNN/Tea Party debate on September 12th, assuming the attendees are not set: They are either going to bar Cain, Santorum, Huntsman from attending, or they are going to let Johnson into the debate as well.
I'm going to take that as a joke.
Is that you Hillary?
Bill?
I’m glad someone has the energy to keep looking up and refuting these charges.
Since they keep being shown to be false, I’ve kind of taken to ignoring them, especially when they don’t even give a link.
And after last night, when I got into an argument with someone who said Perry tried to use his Governor ID to get out of a speeding ticket (only to find that there was no ticket being written, he wasn’t driving the car, and his sin was to ask the officer if she could hurry it up because they were late for a meeting), I realised how much I was getting wrapped up in debunking inaccurate attacks on Perry.
I hadn’t had to do near as much debunking when Freepers were attacking Bachmann - but I presume that’s because they decided Bachmann wasn’t as much of a threat to their preferred candidate.
bump de bump.
Just as Perry may when Palin gets in.
Did you see Palin’s numbers?
As per your observation, that's what's key... the consistency.
Every single poll worth looking at, literally every single one since he's announced, shows him with a clear double digit lead between 10 and fourteen points.
Not only that, but his appeal is very broad-based and cuts across nearly all demographics - rich/poor, north/south, educated/blue collar, young/old, male/female etc. Hence, it can't be said his numbers are the result of a demographic anomaly, flawed data or some liberal media polling conspiracy.
The only thing that can be objectively gleaned is that Perry is an EXTREMELY strong candidate who has dominated the field since the moment he announced.
One must have some fuel in the system in order for the spark plugs to have anything to ignite. He never came off as seriously in and it was no surpise when he "unexpectantly" dropped out. This from one who tried to put some fuel in the tank a couple of times but onviously the pump was dry.
I haven’t even read the whole thread but I am sure that you will be proven correct.
Yes. I see Palin’s numbers. I have the pdf open right now.
Problem was when Fred jumped in. He could not swim. He had no fire in the belly. He was a poor campaigner. That won’t be the case with Palin. Mo one can out campaign her.
I agree. It's very difficult to come off as seriously in when you spend so much of your out-time campaigning as if you were in. People expect a major thrust once you officially enter. Over-expectation was Fred Thompson's major problem. He waited to long to announce and expectations of him grew. Disappointment was the only option once he got in.
AND his “intensity” numbers (crawl over glass to donate and vote from people who know him) are HIGH and holding.
And KEY is he has not reached the top of the chart in name recognition so HE has room to continue to grow in popularity as he gets exposure.
Perry’s campaign and the governor’s state office each say nothing improper, or politically motivated, took place.
“While professional staff and oversight boards will disagree from time to time, the performance of TRS has been both professional and appropriate, and the fund has seen large gains in recent months, with returns in the top 5 percent of all U.S. public pension funds for the past quarter,” said Katherine Cessinger, a spokeswoman in Perry’s state office.
Without Guiliani or Palin, Perry gains 5%, Romney 4%, Bachmann 3%.
I can add that the poll tells us that the 27% of Dems who want a different nominee can be compared to the 32% who said the same about Clinton. Of course, they report (presumably, without telling us) they cherry-picked nadir of this number for Clinton, days after The 1994 sweep of the House by Republicans, when many democrats undoubtedly voted locally for Republicans.
It was also in the months following the failure of his Healthcare reform plan, and the beginning of Whitewater hearings.
On the republican side, the biggest gender gap is Palin. And you might be surprised to know that she gets 1% of women’s support, and only 8% of men’s. Could this be like the guy who’s waiting forever for his date to get ready, and gets fed up and heads off with her brother to grab a beer?
Romney’s strength is among geezers.
Amazingly, Palin’s strength (close second to Perry and well within MOE is among self-described “moderates”. Could Palin be a good nominee to attract moderate mommies, even though she is clearly among the most solidly conservative?
The highest support anyone gets from any Group, is Perry’s 41% support of TEA party supporters with the undeclared candidates excluded. With Palin and Rudy included, Perry gets 37% of TEA party supporters.
I’d like to know the numbers for Clinton at this same time in his first term.
I also am from Texas and Perry is not even in my top 3.
The frontrunner 15 months ahead of time rarely wins the nomination.
Not even sure where you’re coming from.
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